Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk

8 reviews

mai_books_nature's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Death, Misogyny, and Torture

aixiae's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death

mysimas's review against another edition

dark funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

1st half: an imaginative, often funny dark fairy-tale, very engaging and amazing and ahhh

Half-way point: an annoying love triangle takes the front seat, it sort of reflects the book‘s main conflict so a bonus point there, but otherwise ugh

The last third or so: everyone is dead or dying. Lots of gore and violence, completely unnecessary. The last page of the book or so brings the focus back where it should be, but it‘s a bit too little too late.

But somehow I still mostly enjoyed myself even through the weaker parts and overall liked the book. 

My favourite part: Ints the MC‘s snake friend. It‘s not a sentiment I often hold about characters (even animal ones), but I would absolutely die for Ints.

My least favourite part: the sexism. Hurts all the more because initially it looked like MC‘s mom might actually be a badass… got disillusioned pretty quick.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexism, Torture, and Death

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcohol, Fatphobia, and Pedophilia

sagesaria's review

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Misogyny, Animal death, Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Death, and Gore

kay_reads9's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Blood, Child death, Murder, Grief, Violence, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

ok7a's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

Minor: Rape

kkmk's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Animal death and Blood